by Jonas Minnberg (sasq64@gmail.com)
- Parallell zip compression using Info-ZIP deflate or Intel fast deflate
- Parallell unzipping using miniz
- On-the-fly Jar signing
- Flexible command line operation
- Created with the goal of fast APK creation
- Around 6x faster than classic (single threaded) zip
- Around 1.5x faster than 7z zip
- Check LICENCE.md for license information
Check Releases
- Make sure you have yasm and openssl installed. (
apt-get install yasm libssl-dev) - Make sure you build with the latest compiler (clang6+, Visual Studio 2017 15.7+)
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ; make -j8
fastzip <directory>
fastzip <file.zip> <paths>...
fastzip -x <file.zip>
fastzip --help
Compressing the Android NDK folder, 56558 files, 2311874424 bytes (2205 MiB)
zip -4 -r -q ndk_zip4.zip sdk/android-ndk-r13b 45.90s user 6.35s system 78% cpu 1:06.52 total(706MB)fastzip -j -4 ndk_fs4.zip sdk/android-ndk-r13b 48.96s user 3.54s system 700% cpu 7.493 total(701MB)7z a -mx=3 ndk_7z3.zip sdk/android-ndk-r13b 71.87s user 2.69s system 649% cpu 11.477 total(699MB)fastzip -j -I ndk_i.zip sdk/android-ndk-r13b 13.69s user 5.23s system 423% cpu 4.468 total(893MB)
A directory of 98 MP3 files at 925MB
fastzip -j -4 ss4_fs.zip 32.11s user 0.92s system 758% cpu 4.352 total(922MB)7z a -mx=3 ss4_7z.zip 44.92s user 0.70s system 728% cpu 6.261 total(924MB)
My projects directory ~20000 files, 1175MB
fastzip -j -4 proj_fs.zip projects 24.88s user 1.59s system 561% cpu 4.717 total(501MB)7z a -mx=3 proj_7z.zip projects 35.76s user 1.14s system 459% cpu 8.025 total(501MB)
Export APK from Unity. Timed from Progress Dialog open until it closes. Resulting APK ~300MB
- Without Fastzip: 7:30min
- With Fastzip: 19s
- Constant overhead (staging area setup and moving APK) ~10s
- Speedup: ~23x overall (actual APK creation ~48x)
- Without Fastzip: 7:52min
- With Fastzip: 30s
- Constant overhead (staging area setup and moving APK) ~20s
- Speedup: ~16x overall (actual APK creation ~46x)